Each week we carefully curate a collection of poems that resonate with the lectionary readings for that week (Narrative Lectionary and Revised Common Lectionary).
*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Isaiah 43:16-21
CLASSIC POEM:
How Well I know
that Fountain
St. John of the Cross
How well I know that fountain’s rushing flow
Although by night
II
Its deathless spring is hidden. Even so
Full well I guess from whence its sources flow
Though it be night.
III
Its origin (since it has none) none knows:
But that all origin from it arose
Although by night.
IV
I know there is no other thing so fair
And earth and heaven drink refreshment there
Although by night
V
Full well I know its depth no man can sound
And that no ford to cross it can be found
Though by night.
VI
Its clarity unclouded still shall be:
Out of its comes the light by which we see
Though by night.
VII
Flush with its banks the stream so proudly swells;
I know its waters, nations, heavens, and hells
VIII
The current that is nourished by this source
I know to be omnipotent in force
Although by night.
IX
From source and current a new current swells
Which neither of the other twain excels
Though by night
X
The eternal source hides in the Livyng Bread
That we with life eternal may be fed
Though by night.
XI
Here to all creatures is crying, hark!
That they should drink their fill though in the dark,
For it is night.
XII
This living fount which is to me so dear
Within the bread of life I see it clear
Though it be night!
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
Miriam: The Red Sea
Muriel Rukeyser
SNIPPET:
High above shores and times,
I on the shore
forever and ever.
Moses my brother
has crossed over
to milk, honey,
that holy land.
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